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Robert Napier Raikes
General Robert Napier Raikes (13 October 1813 - 23 March 1909) was a British Indian Army officer who became General of the Remount, responsible for the provision of horses throughout the British Indian Army, in 1889.
==Military career==
He was born 13 October 1813 in Drayton the son of Robert Napier Raikes the vicar of Gayton and rector of Hellesdon all in Norfolk, England; and the grandson of Robert Raikes, the promoter of Sunday schools. He was at Addiscombe Military Seminary in 1828 as a cadet. He entered the Indian Army as a cadet in the Bengal Staff Corps on 19 November 1829 sailing from Portsmouth 29 November, arriving Calcutta 14 May 1829. He then travelled across country, only reaching his regiment at Cawnpore on 7 November. Apparently ''his men carried the old flint-lock musket, of which Wellington's maxim was "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."'' He first returned home "on furlough" 35 years later.〔''The Newberys in Six Generations'' page 65, printed by Bemrose and Sons Limited, Derby and London, 1911〕
He was promoted to major in 1854 with the 67th Bengal Native Infantry. He became adjutant to the native Grenadiers, and later became adjutant to the First Gwalior Cavalry.
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